Sadly, We Still Need Roads: Back to the Future Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Great Scott! Has it really been 25 years since audiences first fell in love with a souped-up DeLorean powered by a flux capacitor? Since Michael J. Fox showed that he could play more than a young Republican? Since the jigawatt earned its way into the Real-Sounding Fake-Science Hall of Fame, right next to the dilithium crystals? Man, that's heavy. Yes, Robert Zemeckis' best film (bugger off, Forrest Gump, you were always too sweetly paternalistic for my tastes) came out a quarter of a century ago today and just might be the most entertaining "Mom Almost Porks Her Son" movie ever made. And in just three short months, Universal is releasing the whole trilogy on BluRay in October. I know what I'm asking the Great Pumpkin for. After the jump, enjoy the original theatrical trailer and the scene that I made my parents rewind again and again.
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outside the original Star Wars trilogy, this remains the greatest movie poster of all-time. period.
Don't tell Universal but I once snuck onto the top of the courthouse facade on their lot... Watched the sun set.
Great moment.
Now that entire town square is gone due to a fire which would occur years later.
All hail the Great Pumkin.
It's not jigawatt and it's not fake science. It's gigawatt and it's real. The progression goes kilowatt, megawatt, then gigawatt. This is all because no one on the movie set wanted to tell a talented actor (portraying a scientist) that he was mispronouncing a word that any scientist would know how to pronounce.
Brad,
In the script it was written as Jigawatt.
How to make you feel old, when a movie you watched and loved as a teenager is now 25 years old.
I agree that the posters for Back to the Future trilogy are three of the greatest one-sheets of all time.
In fact, the great Drew Struzan has all of the original paintings that the posters were struck from on sale through his website. However, you probably need to be a Google millionaire to be able to legally hang them on your wall.
http://www.drewstruzan.com/illustrated/portfolio/?fa=medium&gid=686&mp&gallerystart=1&pagestart=1&type=mp&gs=1
Great poster art and an absolute movie classic. 25 years...whoa, this is heavy.
"There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?"
Thanks for that link! Amazing all the great posters he has done! I'm no millionaire so JPEGs will do me just fine...
One of the most entertaining movies of my lifetime, and one of the best first date movies. 25 years ago tonight I took a girl to see the opening of this movie, and now, 25 years later, we celebrate 18 years of marriage, two kids and a blessed "future".
My thoughts exactly Andy! I was 16 y.o. when "BTTF" came out.
Congrats! That's the power of love 🙂
Back to the Future, you are my density.